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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
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Subject: Re: Brief Lookalike Editor On Unix
Message-ID: <1991Jan11.033748.17872@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 11 Jan 91 03:37:48 GMT
References: <190@dmdev.UUCP> <1991Jan9.195507.23848@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
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As quoted from <1991Jan9.195507.23848@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> by tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu (Carl Schelin):
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| In article <190@dmdev.UUCP>, rohit@dmdev.UUCP (Rohit Mehrotra) says:
| >
|        < stuff deleted about Crisp, probably a great editor for Unix >
| >
| >Any programmer from the DOS world would be able to tell more about it. 
| >It is the largest selling editor in the DOS world. Cut and Paste, Formatting 
| >etc is very simple in this editor, as it does not use two modes.
| 
| Sorry to disappoint you, but I can't stand Brief. I perfer using QEdit for 
| all of my work. Simple but effective. I once watched someone trying to
| set it up and he eventually had to expand his environment to 3096 bytes.
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I prefer Emacs myself --- but save the editor wars for some other newsgroup.
Or, better, mail.

What was that "*now* available", anyway?  There are *two* versions of CRISP
for Unix in the comp.sources.misc archives, both fairly old by now --- it's by
no means a new program.

++Brandon
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